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00:00The End
00:30Oh, my God.
01:00Oh, my stomach thinks my throat's cut.
01:13Yeah, well, let's pack it in.
01:18My roof's still letting wet in.
01:20Soon as we've done this stockade, I'll do your roof, all right?
01:23Well, I can feel my rheumatics coming on. Is all this more important than my health?
01:27Yes.
01:28Well, I shan't be much use to your laid-up, will I?
01:30Not too much use, anyway.
01:33Now, look.
01:34Look, it's entirely up to you.
01:35You can either help us build this stockade to keep the sheep in,
01:38or you can sit up at night and beat the dogs off.
01:40Not much in it, the way my roof leaks, if you ask me.
01:43Yeah, well, I'm not asking you. I'm telling you.
01:44You could have got all this done instead of gallivanting off to London.
01:47Don't push your luck, cock.
01:57That trip to London was no picnic.
01:59Where did you suppose that wire came from, anyway?
02:00What are you doing?
02:19Reducing fat.
02:20Yeah, well, that's not your job.
02:22No, but we're getting short.
02:23Well, let Hubert do the damn thing.
02:25It's not enough. Ruth wants to make more soap.
02:27Oh, Ruth can't go.
02:27She's done nothing but talk about soap since you got back from London.
02:38Will you see it doesn't catch?
02:43All right. All right, I'm coming.
02:45Three?
02:54Three?
02:55Go on. I made one extra.
02:58What have we done to deserve this?
02:59Jenny's got enough on her plate already.
03:02Now, thanks, Pet.
03:03Where's Charles? We almost have charcoal.
03:06Hello, Greg.
03:08How's Jenny?
03:10Now, since you're asking, I think she's doing too much.
03:13You're blaming me?
03:14Oh, we've gone for long enough without soap.
03:16We can go without it for a while longer.
03:17No, sorry.
03:18We keep clean and keep healthy.
03:19It's as simple as that.
03:20Yeah, with one notable exception.
03:22What does that mean?
03:22Well, Hubert.
03:23I mean, her stinking clothes are stuck to him.
03:25Huh.
03:26It's not funny.
03:28Oh, come on, Greg.
03:28You're overprotective about Jenny.
03:30Well, I don't see why she should work like a slave
03:32while Hubert does sweet affairs.
03:33Well, that applies to all of us, not just Jenny.
03:35Well, of course it does.
03:36So what are we going to do about it?
03:41Wow.
03:44What's the matter?
04:11We can't go near strangers.
04:14You might not be well.
04:17Oh, yes.
04:19Yes, of course.
04:28It's all right.
04:29They've not been in contact with me.
04:31I'm Alistair McFadden.
04:37Have you been ill?
04:39What?
04:40The disease.
04:42Oh, yes.
04:43Yes, a long time ago.
04:44Must be over a year now.
04:47By the way, what month is it?
04:49Well, it's March.
04:51Where have you come from?
04:52Nowhere.
04:53I mean, I've been on the move
04:55since I left the bunker about a week ago.
04:58Bunker?
04:58Nuclear testing bunker.
05:01At least, that's what I think it was.
05:03They're all over the country, if you can find them.
05:06Well, I'm afraid if you want to join us,
05:07you'll have to go into quarantine for 10 days.
05:1010 days?
05:12Yeah, well, I'll take you down.
05:13Well, there it is.
05:33A house that Jack built.
05:35There's a stove in there.
05:36It's a lot more comfortable than it looks.
05:38Three of us were in there only a fortnight ago.
05:40Well, that's marvelous.
05:42You built it?
05:43With my own fair hands.
05:45Not just for people like me, surely.
05:48Well, we had this guy who had to go into Birmingham
05:50and he caught the plague or something bad.
05:53Well, he was quite a fellow.
05:55So I built this as a sort of practical memorial to him.
05:58We've got to be careful.
05:59You seem a very friendly and sensible people.
06:02Well, we haven't taken to cannibalism yet.
06:04No.
06:05Anyway, you can incarcerate yourself now.
06:08Well, see you all in 10 days, then.
06:13Don't worry, we'll feed you.
06:19Because we might come and stare at you, as there's no zoos left.
06:24Well, it's all very peaceful.
06:26Well, it's all very peaceful.
06:35Hubert!
06:37Yeah, yeah.
06:40Well, shut the door.
06:46Now, Hubert...
06:47Look, I've got one low floor.
06:50Greg got three today.
06:52For the four of them.
06:54Now, look, as soon as we finish that fence,
06:56I'm going to fix your roof, call you.
06:57All right?
06:57I'm out there in all weathers.
06:59I need more bread than him or anyone.
07:01You're in one of your pig heads today, aren't you?
07:04Stump in here.
07:05Well, you wanted to live here.
07:07You said you felt shatting.
07:08I did not.
07:09I was put in here.
07:11From now on, I do as much as anybody else, which isn't much.
07:23Well, this may be a big room, but I'm not having Hubert in with me.
07:27Come on, Arthur.
07:28Give him a chance.
07:29He smells.
07:30He's a malcontent.
07:31He's got appalling manners.
07:33He's idle.
07:34And he annoys me.
07:35He's outside in all this weather.
07:38Well, it's mainly that he smells.
07:39I tried to talk to him about it, but he wouldn't listen.
07:42There's no excuse for him.
07:43Those of us who've achieved a certain standard of hygiene
07:46are not going to put up with less.
07:48You can tell him that.
08:05Keep him warm?
08:08Yes, thanks.
08:10What are you reading?
08:11Poetry.
08:12Wordsworth.
08:13Oh, um, a host of golden daffodils.
08:16Oh, a little more than that.
08:18He was a great philosopher, like Rousseau.
08:21Nature poetry?
08:22Yes.
08:23Well, he really believed that nature was a force that ran through everything.
08:27Man, beasts, plants.
08:30I'm sorry.
08:31I'm being pompous.
08:32Oh, no, no, not at all.
08:34Oh, read me some.
08:36Will?
08:36Yes, go on.
08:40Once again I see these hedgerows.
08:43Hardly hedgerows, little lines of sportive wood run wild.
08:47These pastoral farms, green to the very door,
08:50and wreaths of smoke sent up in silence from among the trees,
08:54with some uncertain notice,
08:56as might seem of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,
08:59or of some hermit's cave, where by his fire the hermit sits alone.
09:05Go on.
09:06These beauteous forms, through a long absence,
09:10have seen to me as is a landscape to a blind man's eye.
09:14But oft, in lonely rooms amid the din of towns and cities,
09:18I have owed to them, in hours of weariness,
09:21sensation sweet, felt in the blood and felt along the heart,
09:26and passing even into my purer mind with tranquil restoration.
09:30Oh, shut up.
09:50Very soon I've got to tell you your meal's ready this time.
10:01If you don't hurry, it'll get cold.
10:06Women.
10:07They can't live without them, Jack.
10:09Some of us have to.
10:10Just in time.
10:26How's Alistair getting on?
10:27Boy, he seems fine.
10:30He's reading poetry.
10:31It's a bit cold in that treehouse for him, though, isn't it?
10:34No, he seems warm enough.
10:35He's got a sleeping bag and a stove.
10:37Ow!
10:40You know, he's picking supper more from loneliness.
10:44Since he hasn't spoken to a living soul till he came here.
10:47Well, what's he in quarantine for?
10:49In ten days we made it a rule.
10:51I know.
10:53But for people who've been in contact with other people.
10:56Well, I'd better see him.
10:57I mean, there's no point in being stuck out there just for a rule.
11:03Lizzie!
11:09Lizzie!
11:10Have you seen Lizzie?
11:19No, I thought she was with you.
11:21Ruth's letting the man out.
11:23What man?
11:24Oh, the new man.
11:25Letting him out?
11:26Yes.
11:27But he's only been here one night.
11:28I know, but that's what I said.
11:30But Ruth said it was to mind my own business.
11:32Oh, did she?
11:33Well, I'm going down there.
11:35Now, listen, will you stay here and keep an eye on Paul
11:37and don't make a noise and wake him up?
11:41But what about Lizzie?
11:42Oh, never mind about Lizzie.
11:44She's probably with Georgie and the others.
11:45Macfadden, M-C-F-A-D-D-E-N.
11:54How old are you, Alistair?
11:5644.
11:57What was your previous job?
11:59Librarian.
12:00Any practical skills?
12:02Not really.
12:04Who told you about us?
12:05I thought you said you'd not been in contact with anyone.
12:08I hadn't.
12:08We spoke over a hedge.
12:11He was on horseback.
12:13When was this?
12:14About a week, ten days ago.
12:15Where?
12:16I'm not sure exactly.
12:18About a hundred miles away.
12:20The time it took for me to get here.
12:22He said he was looking for his wife and child.
12:24Wife and child?
12:25Well, I assumed he was talking about his wife.
12:28Did he mention any names?
12:29No.
12:30Yes.
12:31Yes, he said the boy's name was Peter.
12:35Which way did he go?
12:37I'm not sure.
12:37I said he was making for the coast.
12:39Said something about a house being burnt down.
12:41It's Jimmy Garland.
12:42He saw the message Charles left.
12:43Well, why didn't he come on here?
12:45You must have got another lead on Abby.
12:47These are people you know.
12:49Yes.
12:50Oh, Jenny, you haven't met Alistair McFadden, have you?
12:52Well, we've waved at each other.
12:54Hello.
12:54How do you do?
12:55It's all right.
12:56He's well enough.
13:00Alistair was directed here by Jimmy Garland.
13:02Jimmy?
13:03Where is he?
13:04He's not sure, but they met ten days ago.
13:06Well, then why hasn't he come here?
13:07I don't know.
13:08We think he must have got some news of Abby.
13:10Oh, good.
13:11Are you going to stay?
13:12I hope so.
13:13If you'll have me.
13:14Not much doubt about that.
13:15You couldn't have come at a better time.
13:17I've put that fat in the outhouse.
13:19Thanks.
13:21I know it's tough, but it's worth it.
13:24At least you'll spray the potash a bit.
13:26That's what you think.
13:27How many times is it the wind in the east?
13:29You want to try working on top of it.
13:30No, thank you.
13:31It's worse than being downwind of Hubert.
13:33You're making soap?
13:35However, did you guess?
13:36It's odd that something that smells so awful can make one clean.
13:39That's life.
13:40Oh, hello.
13:43Hello.
13:43How about a cup of tea?
13:44Tea?
13:45Carrot tea.
13:47Have you tried clover and marjoram?
13:49No.
13:50It's delightful.
13:51Really?
13:52Then there's tansy, thyme, valerian, rosemary, chamomile, nettle, marigold tea.
13:58They're all remedial recipes as well.
14:00I ought to warn you.
14:01Ruth used to be a medical student.
14:03You know something about herbal cures?
14:06Well, I, uh...
14:07Go on.
14:08There's no competition.
14:09Except for Mina.
14:10Who?
14:11Mina.
14:12She lives in a cottage in the woods.
14:13She goes in for herbs and things.
14:14Go on.
14:15Well, peppermint is very good if you feel sick or have indigestion.
14:19And you can make a herbal ointment out of dandelions, plantain, yellow dock leaves.
14:22I cured a festering cut on my arm that way last month.
14:25You said he had no practical skills.
14:27I think he's got a job, don't you, Ruth?
14:29Absolutely.
14:30You and I have got to get together, Alistair.
14:32And think how much soap you could make.
14:34Oh, come on, Jenny.
14:35You've been obsessive about this soap ever since you got back from London.
14:38Someone's got to do it.
14:39Yes, why does it always have to be me?
14:41Jenny, that is not fair.
14:42No, it isn't.
14:43I agree.
14:45I'm just making a cup of tea.
14:47Alistair here is an expert on herbal cures.
14:49Is he?
14:50Good.
14:52Look.
14:53Greg and I have just been talking.
14:55It's no good people complaining about their jobs.
14:59Now, this community is run on the basis of everybody doing what they are best at.
15:04Now, if Alistair here knows about herbs, then obviously he'll want to do something about it.
15:07And that's what we must have because we benefit by it.
15:11Yes.
15:11All right, Ruth?
15:14Jenny?
15:15Yes.
15:17Ruth?
15:19Yes.
15:20Look, I'm sorry if some of the jobs are hard.
15:22We just haven't got the technology to make them easier.
15:25Who are you getting at, Charles?
15:26Not getting at anybody.
15:27Because I wasn't complaining.
15:29Oh, come on, Ruth.
15:30You were.
15:30Now, you said you wanted to make more soap and I wasn't producing enough fat.
15:33No, I said there wasn't enough.
15:35Not that you were.
15:36That's exactly the same thing.
15:36No, it isn't.
15:37All right, all right, all right.
15:38Let's stop bickering.
15:40In fact, you was complaining about Peck not making enough bread.
15:43Hubert was.
15:44No, it wasn't Hubert.
15:45Hubert hasn't said anything.
15:46It was you, Joel, Charles.
15:47We were given three loaves yesterday.
15:49Now, Jack said Hubert was complaining.
15:51No, look, I think it's a good idea to clear the air.
15:53It's no good as all just bottling it up.
15:56Does everybody agree with the principle that we each do what we're best at?
16:01Oh, yes.
16:02I was always a marvel at making soap.
16:04I never, ever used a supermarket.
16:08Oh, dear.
16:10A year ago, we were just happy to be alive.
16:18It's all right for you two.
16:20Keep warm, running about.
16:21Any more.
16:22Any more what?
16:23Dogs.
16:24Oh, no, they know what's good for them.
16:26They keep clear of me.
16:28Oscar, you.
16:29No, you ask.
16:30Hey, hey, hey, what, what?
16:32Jack says if you look at the face of a tiger,
16:35into its eyes, it won't attack you.
16:38Well, there ain't no tigers around here.
16:40Unless they come from them wild zoos.
16:43Is it true, though?
16:44I don't know.
16:46Find one and try it.
16:48I told you it isn't true.
16:49I don't know what he's filling your head with.
16:51I mean, if I saw a tiger, I'd run, wouldn't you?
16:54Rargh!
16:56Yeah.
16:56We don't bicker, do we?
17:11There are times when I could bash your face in.
17:14Yes, me too.
17:16Yours or mine?
17:17Yours, of course.
17:18I'd like to see you try.
17:19Oh, Craig.
17:24Hey, hey, hey, what's this?
17:26Oh, I'm sorry.
17:28What for?
17:31Carrying on like this, all weepy.
17:33Well, there's nothing like a good cry.
17:35I don't think I've got over you going off like that, to London.
17:41Well, there was nothing for it, I'm afraid.
17:44Well, I know.
17:46But it showed me what life would be like without you.
17:51I couldn't go on.
17:52I wouldn't want to go on.
17:54Well, you haven't got rid of me yet.
17:56Promise me you won't go away again.
17:58No, you know I can't promise you that.
18:01Yes.
18:04You know what you need's a holiday.
18:06What?
18:07What a change, a break from Paul and the kids and me.
18:11Oh, no.
18:13Look, why don't you go off with Arthur and the others?
18:15He's going to Norfolk next week to get some salt.
18:17You could go with him.
18:18No, Craig.
18:19Come on, petal up after the kids for a week.
18:22No.
18:22Why not?
18:24No.
18:25Well, will you think about it?
18:28No.
18:30Please.
18:34Please, Jenny.
18:38All right.
18:40I'll think about it.
18:44Hello.
18:47I'm Alistair McFadden.
18:51Hubert.
18:52What's in the bag?
18:55I'm collecting herbs.
18:57Herbs?
18:58For medical purposes.
18:59You haven't seen the holly up here, have you?
19:01Holly?
19:02Well, the leaves are good for coughs and colds.
19:04You make a drink from them.
19:06Oh.
19:07Sounds like it was made for me, then.
19:09I'm out in all weathers.
19:11You're not ill, are you?
19:13Oh, well, I shall be, the way my roof lets the water in.
19:19I'll press on, then.
19:20Where are you staying?
19:21In the White House, with Arthur Russell.
19:24Thought so.
19:24Oh.
19:24So what's the trouble?
19:32A new Alistair fellow.
19:33He's in Arthur Russell's place.
19:35Well, he's in the same house, yes.
19:36It strikes me them's last in's best served.
19:40Hubert, I can't order people to go inviting everybody.
19:44Look, living together is a matter of personal agreement.
19:46Well, it's not his place.
19:47It belongs to all of us.
19:48Just to establish somebody responsible for each place.
19:51What I mean is, they who get here first get the best,
19:53then who come here last get the best,
19:54and I'm in the middle of them.
19:55What I guess now, good, the rough lakes.
19:56Look, Jack's going to fix that just as soon as he's finished out there with the stuff.
19:59Fix it.
20:00Oh, I'm frozen to death out there.
20:02I've got no one to look after me.
20:05Well, go on.
20:06Well, it's not fair, is it?
20:11So, you're not the only one out in the cold, you know, Hubert.
20:15Would you rather be in here making soap,
20:16let somebody else look after the sheep?
20:18Well, she's not out, so, is she?
20:19She's supposed to be looking after the pigs.
20:21You don't have to be with the pigs every minute, you know.
20:23But I do with the sheep.
20:24I can't let them roam, not with them wild dogs about.
20:27So you want to be taken off the sheep altogether, is that it?
20:30Even off the slaughter, getting oil for the lamps.
20:33And out of that room.
20:36Look, Hubert.
20:40We each have jobs.
20:42Now, your job is just as important as everybody else.
20:45And you're the only one who knows about sheep.
20:48You can't work out a roster for a shepherd
20:51any more than you can for a carpenter or a mechanic.
20:53You can't swap those jobs, now, can you?
20:56You can houses, though.
21:03Oh.
21:04Why couldn't that Alistair fellow be putting with me?
21:07What's wrong with me?
21:08Have I got the death on me or something?
21:41I just wondered what you thought, that's all.
21:50Well, first of all, I am not having Hubert in here with me.
21:54He's dirty and he's objectionable.
21:57That's all the fuss about, anyway.
21:59While he's out, he gets his food brought to him.
22:01His job was being a shepherd, wasn't it?
22:03Well, he thinks Alistair being educated is part of an elite.
22:06He means Alistair being clean.
22:09Well, there it all.
22:09Well, Hubert sees Alistair gathering herbs.
22:13And to Hubert, that's a cushy number.
22:15Hubert is a damn nuisance.
22:18Oh, well, I don't know.
22:19Who would have thought we'd have Ruth and Jenny arguing?
22:22Now we've got Hubert grousing over this new man.
22:26Oh, this last few days must be one bone after another.
22:28Okay.
22:42let me give you a hand
22:59no it's all right we can manage
23:00I'd rather
23:01look they were all right
23:02oh
23:32Would you like me to stay and help?
23:35No, it's all right, thanks, Alice. We can manage now.
23:40If there is anything I can do.
23:42That's all right, sunshine. You've done enough.
23:45Why don't you go pick me some dandelion and burdock?
23:47My throat's parched.
23:53Oh, thanks.
24:02Oh, thanks.
24:32It is him, isn't it?
24:50Where did you find this?
24:51I told you, on the way up the top, where he was herb-picking.
24:55What's the matter?
24:56Uh, nothing. Look, you...
24:57I've done the right thing, haven't I, bringing it?
24:59Yes, yes, you have.
25:00If he goes, can I have his room?
25:02Well, first, we'll have to establish whether it is him, Hubert.
25:06And then we'll decide what to do.
25:09Oh, sir.
25:10If you don't want him to go, you want it to be kept quiet.
25:13Well, I can keep things quiet if I'm treated proper.
25:16Nobody can say I haven't acted for the best now, can they?
25:19I have a complaint to make.
25:27Something's been taken from my pocket.
25:31Are you Andrew McAllister?
25:33Yes.
25:34I was in the hospital, prison, when the death came.
25:46The keys stopped turning and the big locks and the bangings and the shoutings went.
25:52When I got better, I took the minibus, filled it with food from the kitchens, and I left.
26:00I found a house, a large house, empty by a river.
26:04It had a library.
26:07I caught fish.
26:08There was plenty of food.
26:10I lit fires.
26:11And I read books.
26:14Why did you keep this?
26:16Because it's real.
26:17It tells me who I am and what I did.
26:22What did you do?
26:23I killed a child.
26:27Why?
26:28Because she was looking at me.
26:30And she was frightened.
26:32I was angry that she should be frightened.
26:34There was no reason why.
26:36And that frightened me.
26:37That in me there was something frightening.
26:42I couldn't tolerate a small child frightening me, and in my rage I killed her.
26:47Did a psychiatrist tell you this?
26:49Psychiatrists tell you nothing.
26:51They ask questions to write reports so that they can file judgments.
26:56Then how did you know?
26:59Because I thought about it when I got better.
27:02And how did I get better?
27:04Well, first, because everyone I knew was dead.
27:07I'd seen their bodies.
27:08Even in my persecuted state, I knew that.
27:11At first I was glad they were dead.
27:13I thought I'd killed them.
27:16No one came near me.
27:17No one threatened me.
27:19The locks had gone.
27:20The drugs, the questions.
27:23I read the poetry I found in the house.
27:26Couldn't read the novels.
27:27They were about people and things and places.
27:29But the poetry I understood.
27:31I used to sit by the river and look at the water and the trees.
27:36I was calm and peaceful.
27:38And then it was there, in the poem, in front of me.
27:42Nature and the language of the sense, the anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, the guide, the guardian of my heart and soul, of all my moral being.
27:50The death had cured me.
27:54I believe there are people who are not meant to live in crowded towns or suffer the corruption of commercial pressure, because it moves them away from themselves, from the reality of their own existence.
28:06They are unable to feel, to express, to know who they are.
28:13And so they become tortured and frightened.
28:16And like an animal that's cornered, they strike out.
28:20And so they have to be locked away with other frightened creatures, to be treated with drugs and electric shock.
28:26And the kindly understanding you reserve for naughty children.
28:30But not love.
28:33Not love, because that means sharing.
28:35And how can you share with an animal in a cage?
28:41You're quite sure you know what you're doing, Ruth?
28:44It's not what I'm doing.
28:45We all decided by a majority.
28:47No, no, it's just the majority of the people who are here.
28:50What about the others?
28:51Peggy, Maureen, Mina, Alan, Lewis.
28:54And you're going to convince everybody in the community?
28:57If I can see each of them individually, yes.
28:59What about Hubert?
29:00I'll see Hubert.
29:01Hubert was trying to blackmail me.
29:03Either keep quiet about it, or kick Alistair out.
29:06Either way, he wants Alistair's room.
29:08Well, he's not getting that.
29:09I'll simply tell him that if he brings a word to anyone, before Ruth's had a chance to speak to them,
29:14he's going to be the one that's out on his neck.
29:18What happens if he falls ill again after all he's done it once?
29:21Oh, why weren't you listening to him?
29:23He has total clear insight into what he did and why he did it.
29:27That's the whole point of psychoanalytical treatment if a patient knows himself.
29:32That's why he carries the cutting, because he's not afraid any longer.
29:35That is the cure.
29:37He knows who he is.
29:39I thought perhaps he carried it to remind himself in case he felt like doing it again.
29:44Go home, you old reactionary.
29:46Night.
29:47Night.
29:48Well, we may be primitive by circumstance, but we're civilized by choice.
29:56I think that's what matters.
29:59You know, Hubert was quite prepared to keep it quiet as long as he was all right.
30:03Maybe you thought a child killer was no threat to him.
30:07Exactly.
30:09And that is even worse.
30:12He's a murderer and he's got a better place to live than what I am.
30:15Hubert, I want you to promise you won't say a word about this.
30:20Give Ruth a chance to speak to everyone, all right?
30:22What did he want to come here for in the first place?
30:25That's what I want to know.
30:26Well, he came here for the same reason as we all did.
30:29For food, shelter and safety.
30:32But he was on his own for a year, you said.
30:34Look, I said he was on his own until he was cured.
30:36And when he was cured, he wanted to be with people again.
30:39Now, for God's sake, will he give this man a chance?
30:42Do you promise?
30:46All right, I promise.
30:48If I get a better place.
30:51Hubert, if I hear you've been spreading stories, you won't have anywhere.
30:54Have Greg and Jack gone up?
31:07Ah.
31:09Hey, come here.
31:12You want to be careful.
31:14Why?
31:14What's happened?
31:15You see him?
31:19That's Alistair.
31:20Yeah.
31:21Remember what I was telling you about tigers?
31:24Well, if I told you some people could be like tigers, you know.
31:27Dangerous.
31:28Kill people.
31:30You wouldn't hang about and wait for it to happen, would you?
31:32You'd run away.
31:34Well, if he asked you to help him or do anything...
31:36Don't, understand?
31:38Off you go.
31:39Hey!
31:41Now, don't tell anybody I told you, because if he finds out...
31:45But that's Alistair!
31:47Yeah.
31:47He looks amorous, doesn't he?
31:52Ever seen a smile on the face of a tiger?
31:55Tigers can look nice.
31:57But they can tear you to bits.
32:08How are you getting on?
32:11What's the matter?
32:13I ran into Hubert.
32:14What did he have to say?
32:17Something about, wasn't I being silly?
32:19About what?
32:20Being out on my own, leaving the baby.
32:23Well, go on.
32:24Oh, for goodness sake, Greg, you know what he meant.
32:27I can't stand the man.
32:29He frightens me and he enjoys doing it.
32:30Yes, but he didn't actually mention Alistair by name, did he?
32:33No, he didn't produce a pencil and paper and write it out.
32:36If anything goes wrong in this settlement, you can guarantee Hubert's got something to do with it.
32:40He's got to needle and probe until he gets exactly what he wants.
32:42Well, I can't see why somebody can't mend his roof.
32:44Look, Jack's got an important job to do, just finishing that stockade.
32:47Once he's done that, then he can help.
32:48Well, okay, until somebody mends his roof, why can't somebody else put up with a swell?
32:51All right, all right, all right, all right.
32:52I'll have a word with Charles in the morning.
33:00They're not here.
33:01I'm going back to feed the pigs.
33:05I'll wait here for them.
33:06Hubert, can I have a word?
33:25Greg and Charles have asked if you can move into my place while your roof's being mended.
33:29Well, I'm not prepared to do that, but I'm willing to give you a hand to get the roof repaired.
33:35Shouldn't be too difficult.
33:36Lots of tiles that'll fit from those old outhouses.
33:39Well, at least it'll reduce the leak until it can be done properly.
33:43Well, we'll get somebody else to look after the sheep while we're doing the roof.
33:48Well, we're supposed to have our own jobs, aren't we?
33:50I've got enough to do out here without bothering about roofs.
33:53All right.
33:53Well, don't say I didn't offer to help.
33:55Oh, no, plenty of people get your offers of help.
34:01Them who's come here last get the best places to live.
34:05It was the same before the death.
34:08Privilege for the few.
34:10It'll always be the same.
34:25John!
34:50John!
34:52John!
34:53John!
34:55John!
34:56John!
35:05John!
35:06Alistair, are you going?
35:24I shouldn't have come.
35:25Where will you go?
35:26I'll find a house by the river somewhere.
35:30Is it because of Hubert?
35:31Not especially.
35:32Or because of what you think we might be thinking?
35:34Well, I admit I was suspicious,
35:36but I suppose you wouldn't expect people like Hubert to understand.
35:39Well, it's not that.
35:41Not in itself.
35:46When I was in business, before,
35:49I used to sack people.
35:50I never saw them again.
35:51I never gave them a second thought.
35:52But now everybody, even Hubert,
35:55seems significant.
35:57I'm sorry you're going.
35:59I thought the death would change everything.
36:02It saved me.
36:04When I heard about this place and all of you...
36:08You thought we would be changed as much?
36:10I thought we'd all be changed.
36:12Completely.
36:13Well, maybe it will be one day.
36:15You see, I came out of a nightmare into reality.
36:18And it's reality which is so wonderful.
36:21Just living.
36:22Without people.
36:24Can you understand that?
36:26So I thought.
36:27I didn't think,
36:28but I expected to find people who didn't argue and bicker over petty things like soap.
36:33Oh, I'm sorry.
36:35Maybe I am only able to
36:37exist in a vacuum
36:39without people.
36:41Anyway.
36:42Well, the only reason we're all here together
36:44is that we couldn't survive on our own.
36:46I did.
36:47Till your food ran out.
36:48I'll go to the town and get food.
36:49One of our lot went to a town to get medicine.
36:53He died.
36:54Three of them went up to London.
36:56There are 500 people in London trying to get away before they're wiped out.
37:00There are many ways of dying.
37:01Yes, but when, Lizzie?
37:07How long ago?
37:08One hour?
37:09Two hours?
37:10Did he definitely say he'd stay up there, Lizzie?
37:12Until Greg came.
37:13Is that what he said?
37:14Yes.
37:16Lizzie.
37:17Now, listen, love.
37:18Have you seen John since you came down from the top?
37:22No.
37:23Well, he's not up there now.
37:26Yet Hubert said he hadn't seen him come down.
37:29He did say he'd seen Alistair go up there and come down since then.
37:34Where's Alistair now?
37:35Well, I think I can tell you that.
37:37Rather sad news, really.
37:38Alistair's had enough of us.
37:40He's gone.
37:40Well, I did try to persuade him, but...
37:45When did he go?
37:46Well, about five minutes ago.
37:47Why?
37:52What's happened?
37:54John's disappeared.
37:56And Alistair was the last one seen you.
38:00I don't believe it.
38:02I've just been talking to him.
38:03He was just explaining how good everything was.
38:06Yes, without people.
38:07He told us all that, didn't he?
38:10See my baby.
38:12I must see my baby.
38:13Did you follow him at all?
38:41No.
38:44Why not?
38:46Because I was angry.
38:48Angry with John?
38:49I didn't touch him.
38:52When were you angry?
38:54Before you ran away or after?
38:56When he looked at me.
38:58How did he look at you?
39:00He was frightened.
39:01Why was he frightened?
39:07I don't know.
39:11But you remembered?
39:12Yes.
39:13You remembered the...
39:14The child I killed, yes.
39:18Did you feel there was something in you to be frightened of?
39:21I couldn't understand why he was frightened unless someone had told him.
39:28And that made you angry?
39:31Yes.
39:37We've been all over.
39:38Nothing.
39:41I've got three men on horses on the road.
39:44Alistair, a child is missing.
39:46Now, you were the last person to see him.
39:48You were seen going up to the fence as Lizzie came down from it.
39:52Now, do you understand why we have to ask you these questions?
39:55Oh, yes.
39:56I understand.
39:57I understand.
39:57Well, we can't drag the canal or the lake.
40:02We haven't got a boat.
40:04We can stretch a rope across with men on either side.
40:07Wait it so it sinks.
40:12Do you also understand why we brought you back?
40:15And why we've got to keep you here?
40:17Yes.
40:18For my own protection.
40:20It used always to be like that.
40:27Nothing yet?
40:32It's Charles back.
40:34No.
40:42What are we going to do?
40:44We haven't any proof.
40:47We haven't got a prison.
40:48We can't just lock him up with someone standing over him.
40:55We may as well let him go.
40:56I mean, what can we do?
40:58Well, I've just been back past our house.
41:00Hubert's standing forth.
41:02It's all too simple to someone like Hubert.
41:04You shoot wild dogs.
41:06You're not shooting anyone, Greg.
41:09No.
41:11No, I already decided to let him go.
41:14When?
41:16At first light.
41:17Where is he?
41:19He's through there.
41:21Is he alone?
41:21He's asleep.
41:22He's asleep.
41:26What if they find something tomorrow?
41:28I mean, what about Charles?
41:29Shouldn't you ask him?
41:31What if you're wrong, Greg?
41:34What if they do find something tomorrow?
41:35Well, then I'm wrong.
41:37Charles is right.
41:38And I'm not going through a murder trial again.
41:43Again?
41:45Oh, it was a long time ago.
41:48We've got an engineer, an architect, carpenter, shepherd,
41:52a doctor.
41:54We haven't got any policemen.
41:57Until we do have, I think we should all just stick to our own jobs.
42:00All right, all right, I'm coming.
42:16All right.
42:19What do you want?
42:22Who was right then?
42:23You've been drinking?
42:25Where did you get that from?
42:27Same place we've got to know about that, did you?
42:31Well, up there, it always is.
42:32That's what I think it is.
42:33You'll kill yourself.
42:34It's methyl alcohol, you idiot.
42:36It's an antiseptic.
42:37You'll poison yourself.
42:39Tastes all right.
42:41It's nice in here.
42:43Nice and warm and dry.
42:45What do you want?
42:47We both saw it, what you did.
42:50What are you talking about?
42:51You and me saw that Alastair hit John.
42:54We damn well did not.
42:55I say we did.
42:57What are you trying to tell me, Hubert?
42:59The man's a murderer.
43:01He shouldn't be allowed to be here.
43:03What do you want, Hubert?
43:05If I say I saw him at John, more likely believe that than if you say he didn't.
43:11For God's sake, man.
43:13What I'm trying to say is, if you say nothing about what you saw him do to John, you could
43:18let me have his room.
43:20Favour's a favour.
43:21Oh, get out.
43:22Oh, all right.
43:23I'm going, but I'll get a big stick.
43:25And I'll do what Greg said he'd do to me.
43:28And I'll find him.
43:29And if I don't find him, well, then I'll...
43:32Hubert's roaming around drunk.
43:38He says he's going to, uh...
43:40It's all right.
43:41He's not going anywhere.
43:44Shouldn't we tell Charles?
43:45No, he's asleep.
43:47Don't you worry, Arthur.
43:48I'll take care of it.
43:49All right.
43:49It's all right.
44:02It was only, Arthur.
44:03We'll go back to bed.
44:04Are you sure?
44:05Yeah, I'm sure.
44:06Shouldn't you have someone outside if you fall asleep?
44:09I won't fall asleep.
44:10Go on, back to bed, Charles.
44:13All right.
44:19Go on, drink it up.
44:25It's going to be a cold day.
44:29I'll take you as far as the reservoir.
44:49Where have you been?
45:10I went on the road.
45:12Why didn't you come back?
45:14It's the rule.
45:15What rule?
45:16If you go out and come back, you have to stay here.
45:19It's quarantine.
45:28He's all right now.
45:30He stopped shivering, hugging the hot water bottle.
45:33Well, Hubert's a mess.
45:35He actually tried to get me to admit that I saw I was to hit John.
45:39Yeah.
45:39What's worse is than actually frightening the boy.
45:42Well, I warned him.
45:43Well, what do we do with him?
45:46What can you do?
45:47If you throw him out, he dies with self-neglect.
45:51I couldn't persuade Alice to the state.
45:57Where is Hubert?
46:03Hubert!
46:04Hubert!
46:04Hubert's knockout drops.
46:25Oh, no.
46:26Is it your stuff?
46:27No, no, it's not metal alcohol.
46:29But it's the rest of the brandy I'd saved.
46:32For the same purpose.
46:33Medicinal.
46:34That man is a thief, Charles.
46:35He has to go.
46:36Yeah, yeah.
46:39How's John?
46:40He's fine.
46:41He's just got a little chill, that's all.
46:42He'll be all right.
46:44What was that herbal drink that Alistair suggested for coals?
46:46Do you remember, Ruth?
46:47Yes, holly leaves.
46:48But we don't know how to make it.
46:50Oh, I don't know.
46:51Complete herbal.
46:53The other one's not so useful.
46:54Poetry by Wordsworth.
46:55Selected works.
46:56Don't look.
46:57Poor man.
47:00First we hand him out, put him through all of that, and then he leaves his books behind.
47:06Well, he's marked this one.
47:08He meant us to have it.
47:10Here, listen.
47:10It is nature's law that none, the meanest of created things, of forms created, the most
47:18vile and brute, the dullest or most noxious, should exist divorced from good, a spirit and
47:24pulse of good, a life and soul to every mode of being, inseparably linked.
47:30The meanest of created things.
47:34Obviously, he means Hubert.
47:37I'm going to miss Alistair.
47:39Well, he left us something useful.
47:44Why should we be stuck with Hubert and that man out there?
47:48Come on.
47:50We've all got work to do.
47:52How do you know it was Hubert that told John when he marked that book last night?
47:55Who did he mean, then?
47:59Well, I think he meant everyone, including himself.
48:04By the way, Greg, took a chance last night, didn't you?
48:08Letting him go without consulting me.
48:11Would it have made any difference?
48:21It is nature's law that none, the meanest of created things, of forms created, the most
48:28vile and brute, the dullest or most noxious, should exist divorced from good, a spirit and
48:35pulse of good, a life and soul to every mode of being, inseparably linked.
49:05We'll see you next time.
49:12We'll see you next time.
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